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PG. GE. 
PHALENA-DIPSACEA, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SINC NIAMS. 
Thorax fmooth: anterior wings pale clay colour, with a broad 
brown ramofe bar acrofs: pofterior pair black, with an irregular 
pale oblique bar, and double fpot of the fame near the pofterior 
margin. 
PHAL#NA Dtipsacea: levis alis deflexis pallidis: fafcia lata 
fufca, pofticis albo nigroque variis. Lin. Sy/t. 
Nat. 2. 856. 185.—Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2- 
Pp. 33. [p- 83. 
Wren. verz. 89. 3. 
Hitherto confidered as a fcarce or at leaft very local f{pecies. 
Dr. Latham found it in great abundance in a clover field near Dart- 
ford, Kent. The larva is defcribed; it is red with broken or inter- 
rupted white lines and a cinereous head. It feeds on the Centaurea, 
Plantain and ‘Tragopogon. 
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